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Caligula and Incitatus, drawing by Jean Victor Adam. Incitatus (Latin pronunciation: [ɪŋkɪˈtaːtʊs]; meaning "swift" or "at full gallop") was the favourite horse of Roman Emperor Caligula (r. 37–41 AD). According to legend, Caligula planned to make the horse a consul, although ancient sources are clear that this did not occur. Supposedly ...
A persistent, popular belief that Caligula actually promoted his horse to consul has become "a byword for the promotion of incompetents", especially in political life. [133] It may have been one of Caligula's many oblique, malicious or darkly humorous insults, mostly directed at the senatorial class, but also against himself and his family.
Lucius Cassius Longinus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reigns of Tiberius and Caligula. He was ordinary consul in the year AD 30 with Marcus Vinicius as his colleague. [1] Longinus came from an ancient and noble gens, the Cassii. He is best known as the first husband of the Emperor Caligula's sister Julia Drusilla, whom he ...
After Claudius became emperor, Vinicius accompanied him during the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 and was awarded the ornamenta triumphalia. In 45, he was honoured with the rare distinction of a second consulship as prior consul; his colleague that year was Titus Statilius Taurus Corvinus. [11] At Messalina's instigation, Vinicius was killed ...
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He was the husband of Plautia, sister of Aulus Plautius (conqueror and first governor of Britain), attested in an inscription. [5]According to Tacitus, the daughter of Publius Petronius and Plautia, named Petronia, married Aulus Vitellius the Younger, who was during the Year of Four Emperors (69) briefly emperor.
In 38 CE, Caligula sent Herod Agrippa to Alexandria unannounced. [2] According to Philo, the visit was met with jeers from the Greek population who saw Agrippa as the king of the Jews. [3] Flaccus tried to placate both the Greek population and Caligula by having statues of the emperor placed in Jewish synagogues, an unprecedented provocation. [4]
He supported Emperor Caligula, and was a favorite of Emperor Claudius' wife Valeria Messalina. During Claudius' reign, he was Consul again twice, and governed Rome while the Emperor was absent on his invasion of Britain. Around the time that Claudius married Agrippina the Younger in 47, 48 or 49, Vitellius served as a Censor.